A short history of Culross, Fife, Scotland. A filming location for the series Outlander.
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Culross in Fife, Scotland, has a deep history going back into antiquity. A beautiful location with much to see and do. It has also been used a filming location for the tv series Outlander. Join me as I delve into the history of the beautiful place.
As always a great video , The old Kirk yard is something special, Culross is a great place to visit .
Thank you David. Beautiful place and a hidden wee gem.
Looks beautiful. Chilling me out after my husband had a spontaneous lung collapse. Been sat in ITU panicking all weekend. Thanks for the history and a moment of forgetting all that’s going on with Al. (Always thought it was Cul-Ross too! Just like Milnegavie - Mul guy) Just imagine what those steps and streets have seen in time? Blows my mind.
Hello my friend. Chris in Canada here, Mackie Outdoors VIP member! Sorry I have been quiet of late...life...you know. Thank you for another beautiful video. The history, the sentiments, the music. Perfect. As I was cooking dinner with a whisky (albeit a bourbon not a Scotch) the old algorithm brought us together again. You continue to transport me to places I can't be at right now, or indeed ever in time. This is the second time I have written this since the first didn't save apparently so I hope I relay my thoughts just the same second time around. I have walked castles, estates, battlefields and graveyards and when you said it, I have been there so many times with the birds singing and thought it just as you said it... "not a bad place to end up". We can only wish for such an end. My wife smiled from across the room when she heard you say it because she has heard me say it before. I have never mentioned it before but the small town I now find myself in 17 years later from my origin in North Yorkshire is actually called St. Andrews. Enough said. Scotland, a place I hold so dear and long to be in again and respect so much despite my ancestry. The town emblem is the flag of St. Andrew with a wooden defensive blockhouse in front. Check it out...
www.townofsaintandrews.ca/visitors/
Maybe one day you will visit and we can host you. Just 6 hours as the crow flies from Glasgow my friend. Thank you again for a beautifully haunting video and for bringing me back to the UK when I can't be there in person.
Chris
Hello my brother from a different mother, how are you doing my friend. As always, it’s a pleasure to hear from you and I hope that your wife is doing well also. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, I certainly had a great day weather wise to record it, what a stunning place it is. Nothing wrong with bourbon, I am also at the moment slurping on a fine malt, but I’ll take bourbon any day also. I have a tiktok page also where there is much chat and videos that are too short to post on here, your welcome to join the club, it’s mackie outdoors on there also and if you do join, be sure and make your way through the vip door as you enter. Where is it you live again? Canada rings a bell!! I’m planning on documenting all the filming locations in Scotland where Braveheart was filmed, might be right up your street. We’re about to watch a little more of the series Yellowstone, so I’ll let you go for now, and speak soon buddy 🏴🤙
@@mackieoutdoors9410 My friend, you have made my day! Braveheart holds a deep place in my movie heart. I was 13 when it came out and it was the first blockbuster historical epic that I had seen. The following year my Dad and I made a pilgrimage to Scotland because I loved the movie (and soundtrack which I still listen to often). We visited Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument (which had an awfully cheesy statue of Mel Gibson as Wallace there at the time) and Bannockburn battlefield. Please, please, please do this. There is no better person than you to cover this, your attention to detail, passion, respect and completionist attitude will mean you will leave no stone unturned. I am already preparing myself for teary eyes listening to you take us on a tour as the beautiful music plays in the background. Last Spring I was at the monument and Stirling Castle with my wife and 10 year old daughter and began to introduce her to the history. She is a little too young for the film still but she will love to see you walk in her footsteps. I have already shown her your Highlander video with Loch Shiel and the Glenfinnan Viaduct as we were there also last Spring, but for more Harry than Connor reasons :) Keep it up and I still wait for the day when we can enjoy a glass or 3 of said whiskeys together.
Hey brother. Just hoping all is well with you. Didn't see a reply to my comment about you working on William Wallace locations. Not that I deserve a reply, but it is not like you not to reply so wanted to make sure you are all well and good. I would love to chat further if there is a way that we can exchange emails safely and chat about the things we love. Though it it is looking unlikely I will be able to move my family to the UK anytime soon, we will eb there soon I hope for another visit and I would love to visit locations you have highlighted. Let me know you are ok and if we can chat further. VIP member Chris.
@@chrisharrison277 good morning brother. I’ve just been so busy recently with work that I’ve not spent much time online. I’m very well, how are you? I thought I had replied to the William Wallace comment matey. If your interested, I do have a page on tiktok called mackie outdoors, on there I post many short form videos which are too short for my CZcams channel. I’m happy to communicate with you anytime my friend 😀
Another beautiful video
So much history and you explain it so well.
Fabulous photo of the lady getting the water from the Lock it Well.
Another place to add to our must visit list ❤🏴
Hope you're having a good week
Looking forward to your next video
Morgs Jo and Boo 🐕 ❤
Thank you Morgs. If you go, aim for a sunny day, it really shows off the buildings etc. I look forward to watching you video on Culross 🤙
Fascinating video, great history.
Thank you, very much appreciate the feedback matey 🤙
What a great video, sir! I was there last month (April 2024) -- cold -- rainy -- and amazing! I appreciate your attention to the details -- as an architect these are most important -- but the humanity, past and present, as you alluded to is the real reason the 'genius loci' (spirit of the place) is so strong -- cheers from Texas!
Good morning Jeff. Thank you for your message and compliment. Scotland must be quite the culture shock coming from Texas? I often wonder how Americans view Scotland when they come on holiday. Totally agree, when you walk those streets in Culross, it’s easy to feel transported back in time, even if it is just in the imagination.
@@mackieoutdoors9410 I looked and looked but could find any Mexican food LOL -- but the haggis rocked !!! Cheers !
@@jeffhallum 😆. I’m glad you enjoyed the Haggis buddy. Have a great day 🤙
Love it, fan of Scotland.
Thank you Jacqueline 😀
I can not believe how less followers you have mate. You should be on top of the lists with your amazing adventures and storytelling. I live in Fife so I am going to follow your videos and visit them. New follower gained and inspired.
Thank you buddy, much appreciate the message and compliment. I guess my stuff is not for everyone, but I truly believe you find your crowd eventually, people like yourself. On my Tiktok channel I do much better, perhaps my videos are a bit too long for most people. Hope your well my friend and thank you again 🤙
Is this close to Falkland, just named one of the most beautiful places in the world? (Looks similar to pics in newspapers). Dunkeld was as magical as you made it appear. Stunning place. Good trail (I didn’t fall, always a bonus) we’ll be back. You know any other good mountain biking trails around that area? North of Perth, although would travel south further for a great trail. Thanks in advance if you see this. Dunrobin Castle also made the list. Have you been there? It’s stunning. Hope you and your’s are well.
No, it’s nearer to Dunfermline and the Kelpies. Glad you enjoyed Dunkeld. Great biking paths throughout Aviemore, I recommend that. Dunrobin Castle I’ve visited about 6 times, it is beautiful. For me, Glencoe is one of the most beautiful places in the World, lots to do up there.
@@mackieoutdoors9410 oh right, thanks, will bear in mind, thought it might be near this village, as pics looked similar and it’s also an Outlander filming location. Yeah, do trails on the Gorms regularly, weather permitting it’s Sgòr Goaith, near Glen Feshie, (start bike hike in Badenoch) this weekend. Not sure we’ll go though, hearing reports that the trails are really wet and super muddy. Plus half the enjoyment is the hike up and the reward of the view from
the top, where you see Loch Einich and glorious views in every direction. One of our biking buddies went Monday, and was so cloudy and raining so heavily, all he got to see after his hike was clouds, clouds and some more clouds! So maybe we’ll sit this weekend out, just hope if we do I won’t be forced to watch any football!! (I will be forced to watch football - think I’d rather do the hike in torrential rain and slide on my butt through the mud to the bottom!!) Completely agree on Glen Coe, apart from Saville Cottage, which although lovely and in beautiful spot, just makes me boke every time I see it.
Angel or cherub means a child usually, and parents (skull) was likely buried later, adults usually with a skull and from Victorian times. Lambs always signify a child. You should start a grave cleaning channel, they get millions of views and no one does it in Scotland.
I’ve thought about the grave with the cherub and the skull since I posted the video. There’s a date on the front and one on the back as I showed in the video. It makes sense to me now that the front is the date of birth and the back is the date of death, hence the skull. Might be wrong though.
@@mackieoutdoors9410 Skulls and cross bones were huge in Victorian times. Lambs and cherubs for children. Quite a morbid lot with mortis memori photos etc. Whatever brought peace to them though. It is prob a double grave, as they rarely would put skulls on a child grave alone. They buy the plot, and parents info on back of child’s. They often didn’t include birth and death date. One or other and stone masonry was pricey.
You must spend so much time doing your research and memorising script (doesn’t look like you’re script reading). Fair play. Should have more subs. Will be recommending. (My son is in Outlander, an extra, but often seen on screen. It’s the studios in Cumbernauld, Wardpark that cast. You could prob get in there, defo got the look they go for, super well paid, and they travel you all over Scotland.)
I do spend a lot of time researching before filming. I don’t script read, but many outtakes and mistakes made during filming 😆. Well done to your son, but I doubt I’m what they are looking for lol.
@@mackieoutdoors9410 no seriously, your look, and accent, is always what they’re looking for. They’ll maybe add some red hair and a red beard in make up, but if you fancy a few scenes, with good pay, good food, and travel round Scotland (when you’re able, they don’t force you just offer scenes), if I was you I’d be in touch ASAP!
You are also super well paid. I think it’s £500/day and if you have a scene with a line or 2, even if it’s just you in front roaring, add an extra £300 to that!
Sorry, head’s all over place, seem to be unable to make one simple comment, rather than think of something else to say! (Beautiful music choices)